Chapter 23 Chapter 23 Catching bugs...
Chapter Twenty-Three
Yao Anhui took great care in decorating her new home, doing everything according to her own wishes. Apart from embroidering her dowry at home, Yao Anhui spent every day in her new home.
Women naturally value their weddings, especially Yao Anhui, who has longed for a home of her own in both her past and present lives.
The wedding dress was naturally of paramount importance. Even though people at that time dared not use "feudal dross" such as embroidery, Yao Anhui still hoped to make it as perfect as possible.
In the 1970s, the most enviable clothing was military uniform. At that time, most people considered it an honor to wear military uniforms when they got married. For ordinary people, owning a set of military uniforms and walking down the street would definitely make them stand out. Many soldiers also chose military uniforms for their weddings.
But Yao Anhui was different; she wanted to wear a red wedding dress. After confirming that she could wear red for her wedding, Yao Anhui asked Hua Fangling to help her buy a piece of red cotton fabric so she could make her wedding dress by hand.
Because of many restrictions and the fear of being reported, Yao Anhui's wedding dress was very simple. With the dress design provided by Hua Fangling, Yao Anhui made a red one. The style looked no different from other dresses, but the cut made her look particularly elegant and flattering.
However, the seemingly simple wedding dress has some hidden details. The style looks quite simple, but the cuffs, collar and waist are actually embroidered with auspicious patterns in the same color silk thread. From a distance, it looks like a solid red cotton cloth, but you can see the details when you get closer.
Aside from the wedding dress, Yao Anhui didn't have many other requirements; at least on the surface, she didn't seem any different from other families in that era.
However, Hua Fangling's shopping mall is really useful, especially since it has a super strong self-consistency capability and very powerful functions. No one will doubt the origin of the products you buy from it.
Hua Fangling was good to her, and Yao Anhui wasn't ungrateful. She had secretly inquired about it from the beginning and found out that the letter Hua Fangling sent to report Wu Xingye wasn't sent from here, but from the capital more than a thousand kilometers away. Moreover, it was impossible to find out who sent it. With a distance of more than a thousand kilometers, who would have thought that the sender would be Hua Fangling?
Moreover, Hua Fangling is a person with great insight and foresight. For example, the things she bought for Yao Anhui were because Hua Fangling actually knew that kind of person.
The furniture was indeed bought from a carpenter. Hua Fangling bought furniture blueprints from the mall and asked the carpenter to make the furniture. The carpenter made several extra sets, thinking that he could sell them if he could, or use them as a dowry for his daughter if he couldn't. Yao Anhui was incredibly lucky to have encountered this opportunity.
However, the red cotton fabric used for the wedding dress was bought by Hua Fangling from the mall. It was actually quite different from the fabrics available at the time. But since a wedding dress is only worn once in a lifetime, Yao Anhui didn't want to settle for it and accepted it. She figured she could always find a way to repay Hua Fangling's kindness later.
Besides, it's not just Hua Fangling who has a cheat code; Yao Anhui also has the power of words, and she often blesses Hua Fangling so that her wishes come true.
In short, Yao Anhui remembered all the kindness Hua Fangling had shown her and would repay it someday; there was plenty of time.
By June, Yao Anhui and Lu Yuanqing's home was already very cozy and fully furnished, just waiting for their wedding in July so they could move in.
The vegetable garden in the yard had been prepared and planted with vegetables long ago. Seasonal bok choy and other vegetables were already lush and green, while eggplants, cucumbers, and green beans had already borne fruit.
They even moved a grape vine from Hua Fangling's house and planted it next to the toilet sink. The empty space above the sink wasn't a problem; they would build a trellis for the grape vine there later, making sure not to waste any space.
On the other side, it was relatively empty. There was only a clothes rack and a pair of wooden buckets placed by the pool. The room was already fully furnished, with both hard and soft furnishings in place.
Yao Anhui had prepared everything that Shi Yao could think of for a small home: bed sheets, duvet covers, pillows, even thick cotton quilts for winter, curtains, and even a few soft cushions on the wooden sofa.
The kitchen is fully prepared with all the pots, pans, bowls, rice, flour, and cooking oil.
Lu Yuanqing had not handed over all his savings before. In the past two months, he had been looking for comrades to exchange for tickets, watches, sewing machines, and radios. He had also found someone to buy some good fabrics for Yao Anhui to make clothes.
The sewing machine was the first thing she bought because she would need it. Thanks to Yao Anhui's hard work, the wardrobe is almost full, and she has now started making winter clothes.
There's another story about the sewing machine. On the day it arrived, Yao Anhui happened to run into Wu Cheng'an and his mother, Aunt Li. Yao Anhui still remembers the complicated look in Wu Cheng'an's eyes.
Wu Cheng'an is impeccable in his work and on matters of principle, but Yao Anhui doesn't like his personal life. It reminds her of that dog emperor from her previous life. In Hua Fangling's words, he was a chauvinist who liked women to be virtuous wives and good mothers at home and was very confident.
Wu Cheng'an is capable; otherwise, he wouldn't have become a regimental commander in his early twenties. Although Wu Cheng'an is now in his thirties, he has been a regimental commander for several years.
Wu Cheng'an also had ambitions. A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier. Wu Cheng'an wanted to climb the ranks, but sometimes, among people with equal abilities, those who have connections will naturally climb faster.
However, Wu Cheng'an also had a strong sense of self-esteem. He was afraid that if he really married someone from a good family, others would misunderstand him as incompetent, and he was also afraid that his wife would become arrogant in front of him because of her good family background.
At this time, Yao Anhui appeared. Yao Anhui was beautiful and he was immediately attracted to her. More importantly, Yao Anhui's father was Guan Kangde's savior, which would allow him to get involved with Guan Kangde. Even more importantly, Yao Anhui was now an orphan who had lost both her parents. She was simply the perfect wife candidate for him.
As for his mother, Aunt Li, disliking Yao Anhui for being too beautiful, thinking she was restless and unhealthy, Wu Cheng'an didn't take it to heart. He hadn't planned for Yao Anhui to work anyway. Since she was unhealthy, she could stay home and rest. In his opinion, her infertility wasn't as important as his future.
Moreover, Wu Cheng'an genuinely liked Yao Anhui, and when emotions run high, one doesn't listen to such things.
Wu Cheng'an never expected that Yao Anhui would choose Lu Yuanqing, not him, nor Jiao Jingming who had a good family background, strong abilities, and a promising future, but Lu Yuanqing, who, in his opinion, was the least competitive among the three.
So when Wu Chengan met Yao Anhui again after deliberately avoiding her for more than half a month, he still felt complicated.
Wu Cheng'an only had some petty thoughts. He had a very upright sense of right and wrong and his character and morality were not too flawed. After learning that Yao Anhui and Lu Yuanqing were dating, he had already let go of his feelings for Yao Anhui. However, his feelings were still inevitably complicated.
However, Wu Cheng'an's mother, Aunt Li, greeted Yao Anhui with a smile and wholeheartedly supported Yao Anhui's marriage to Lu Yuanqing.
Aunt Li wasn't actually that bad; she was just an ordinary person with some feudalistic ideas.
Aunt Li's eldest son had passed away, leaving only a daughter. Her reason for opposing Wu Chengan's marriage to Yao Anhui was simple: Yao Anhui looked unwell and unable to have children. The old-fashioned Aunt Li wanted a grandson and was afraid that the Wu family line would end.
The reason why Aunt Li greets Yao Anhui with a smile is very simple: Aunt Li knows Yao Anhui's father, Yao Ruifeng. Yao Ruifeng, who is always willing to help others, often helps her with small things. Aunt Li has also received favors from him. With this relationship, Aunt Li's feelings towards Yao Anhui are like having several layers of filters applied to her.
In addition, Yao Anhui was about to marry Lu Yuanqing, which wouldn't prevent her from having a grandson, so the kind-faced old lady returned.
At this time, Yao Anhui had no idea what kind of interaction she and Aunt Li would have in the future.
After Lu Yuanqing became jealous of Wu Chengan and their relationship progressed further, the day arrived for Yao Anhui and Lu Yuanqing to get married.
On July 10, 1970, the eighth day of the sixth lunar month, Yao Anhui was three months old when she came into this world. The sun was shining brightly that day.
A note from the author:
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Thank you to everyone who helped catch the bugs, love you all!
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